Bob Burke

Bob Burke is president of FolderWave, Inc. (www.folderwave.com), a cloud-based company offering products and services designed to significantly improve complex, high-volume time-dependent process and data management operations in many operational areas in higher education. He can be reached at bob@folderwave.com.

The irony about cloud computing in the higher education environment is that
most schools have already been using it to some extent but may not even
realize it.
Gmail is one example. Yahoo Mail is another. The fact is web-based
applications, which many schools rely on for daily communication, don't
always register with most people as being part of the cloud computing trend.
But they are, given that they essentially fit the layman's rudimentary
explanation of the cloud: where storage and computing capacity exist
(provided by a vendor) so all that is needed on a PC, laptop, tablet or
smartphone is a browser. There are more "technical details" to actual cloud
infrastructure, platforms and delivery, but for the purposes here, we will
stick with the basic view.
There's no question that cloud computing usage has exploded and will continue
unabated. An article in the Sep... (more)